Word: holding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Havana, Gorbachev will hold lengthy discussions with Castro, leader of the island nation 90 miles off the Florida coast. Castro has criticized Gorbachev's pragmatic reforms, and Soviet officials have said they may reduce aid in the future to the Caribbean nation...
Gorbachev will be in Cuba through Wednesday for meetings with Castro. In London, he will hold talks Thursday with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, address financial and business leaders Friday and have lunch with Queen Elizabeth II before departing for Moscow...
Fresh off a Greyhound bus in Atlanta, Kelly lodged six months with a "crazy pimp" he'd met on the street. "Whores, drag queens would give me their money to hold for them," he said. "People liked me." In Atlanta he decorated Yves Saint Laurent windows for free. ("He was my hero. I tried to do them just the way Mr. Saint Laurent would have wanted them.") A job sorting clothes for Amvets gave Kelly access to discarded Chanel suits and old beaded gowns. Soon he had his own antique-clothing boutique. When ends didn't meet...
...agreement contains a provision for cancellation in November if the contras provoke violence. But for now the Democrats and Republicans have both signed on to a plan that guarantees the 12,000-man contra army will remain intact through next February, when the ruling Sandinistas have promised to hold democratic elections. That much had been an emergency goal for Bush, since the current U.S. contra-aid program is scheduled to expire this week. Congressional Democrats, who have grown resistant to such assistance since the Iran-contra scandal, accepted this program because it effectively sets a date for the contras' disbandment...
Baker's next step will be to hold out a list of economic and diplomatic incentives to reward democratic reforms in Nicaragua. Such a list has not yet been compiled, but the rewards will probably include the presence of an American Ambassador in Managua for the first time in nearly a year, a gradual lifting by Washington of its almost four-year-old trade embargo, and loans through the Inter-American Development Bank...